13. Judge Badger, B. F. Moore, Thomas Bragg, and W. N. H. Smith, were all in full practice before the courts, and were the peers of Iredell, Davie and Archibald Henderson of former days. It is impossible to overestimate the influence for good or evil which has been and ever will be exerted by the lawyers in a free land. They are the sentinels and conservators of public liberty, and, next to the clergy, improve or impair the morality of the masses.
QUESTIONS.
1. What changes were noticed in North Carolina in 1836? What is said of cotton and slave property?
2. What canal had been completed? How did it benefit that section?
3. What is said of the railway charters?
4. In what condition were railroads at this time?
5. What is said of the present means of travel?
6. What religious convention had been formed in 1730?
7. What public man is now mentioned, and what is said of his abilities?
8. What mention is made of Chief-Justice Taylor?